How long does it take to read There Is an Alligator Under My Bed?
There Is an Alligator Under My Bed by Mercer Mayer takes about 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 35 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1987. 32 pages, about 8,800 words. Written for children.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The alligator under his bed makes a boy's bedtime hazardous operation, until he lures it out of the house and into the garage.
Subjects: Alligators, Bedtime, Fiction, Alligators -- Fiction, Bedtime -- Fiction, Children's fiction
